OK, I am having a few odd issues that have shown to be related to or are resulting from the use of portable apps...
1. My laptop will not boot to the login screen unless whatever portable medium I am using is removed. It will boot fine when the SD card or USB key is completely disconnected from the computer, but if I forget to take it out, the computer will hang after the windows boot screen, but before the login screen until the portable device is removed. This only happens on my laptop and only ntil the device is removed.
2. When attempting to use the Windiz update extension for firefox, my portable firefox, crashes. No warning, just bam, no firefox. I attempt to restore the sessin, no dice, crashes again. I start a new session and attempt to update again, bam crashes. I am not sure if this is an error by windows or by portable firefox or by the extension.
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#1 is common. Your PC is attempting to boot from the device and can't before others. My desktop has this issue as well. You may be able to disable it within BIOS.
#2 is probably due to the extension itself. It may just not be portable. I don't know enough about how it works to mention it, though. You could also try enabling cache. Some complex extensions like this one crash if cache is disabled.
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I'll have a look at the extension for you and see if it's that.
Edit: Hmm, this one?
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